Retro Funding Round 6
The Optimism Collective’s sixth round of Retroactive Public Goods Funding (Retro Funding) took place in the Q4 of 2024. Retro Funding 6 allocated 2.4m OP tokens to reward contributions to Optimism Governance, including governance infrastructure & tooling, governance analytics, and governance leadership.
You can find a full overview of Retro Funding Round 6: Governance here (opens in a new tab).
Process Overview
- Sign up: Oct 1st - Oct 14th
- Application Review Process: Oct 14th - Oct 28th
- Voting: Oct 31st - Nov 13th 18:00 UTC
- Results: Dec 12
Results
👉 You can view the Retro Funding results here (opens in a new tab) and explore the results calculation here (opens in a new tab).
Retro Funding recipients must complete a KYC process with the Optimism Foundation. If you're a recipient, please direct questions or problems with the KYC & grant delivery process to [email protected].
Voting
👉 Voting was live from Oct 31st - Nov 13th.
Retro Funding 6 iterated on Round 5’s design by selecting random guest voters to see their effect on resource allocation decisions. You can learn more about the Retro Funding 6 Guest voter selection experiment here (opens in a new tab).
Retro Funding 6 had approximately 76 Guest Voters who were invited to vote alongside Citizens.
Citizens were able to review the aggregated voting results of Guest Voters and cast a final vote (opens in a new tab) to integrate the votes of Guests at a 1:1 ratio.
Badgeholders can find all the information relevant for voting in the Badgeholder Manual. (opens in a new tab)
Project Applications
👉 Projects are able to apply for Retro Funding rounds via retrofunding.optimism.io. (opens in a new tab)
All projects for Retro Funding Round 6 had to create an Optimist Profile, which serves as a builder's persistent identity across the Collective. You can read more about this here (opens in a new tab).
You can learn more about future Retro Funding rounds here (opens in a new tab). If you're looking for inspiration on what you could contribute to the Optimism Collective, check out contribute.optimism.io (opens in a new tab).
Badgeholders
In Retro Funding 6, 78 out of 102 Citizens submitted their ballots and 60 out of 76 guest voters voted.